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“All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?”

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“Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes”

“Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it”

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Author:Nicholas von Hoffman

“In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal”

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Author:Learned Hand

“The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget”

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Author:Charles O. Rossotti

“The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money”

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Author:Nicholas von Hoffman

“[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news”

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Author:Don Nickles

“I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.”

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Author:Ken Dodd

“I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place”

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Author:Bob Dole

“And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income taxes can be a 'pain in the neck,' the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life”

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Book:Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

Source: Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

“The United States has a system of taxation by confession”

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Author:Hugo Black

“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten”

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Author:George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

“Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow”

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Book:Yes, We Can

Source: Yes, We Can

“I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money”

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Author:Arthur Godfrey

“I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.”

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Author:Thomas Paine

“The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.”

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Author:Vilfredo Pareto

“The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.”

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Author:Eric Pianka

“Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies.”

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Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?”

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Author:Peg Bracken

“The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.”

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Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

“The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.”

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Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.”

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Author:Alexander Hamilton

“A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets.”

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Book:The Federalist on the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution

“In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.”

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Author:Joseph Story

“As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.”

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Book:Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index

Source: Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index

“Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

“Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

“It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.”

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Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798

“No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.”

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Book:Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796

Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796

“It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.”

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Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788

“If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”

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Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.”

Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

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